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Meningitis Outbreak Accelerates in NYC Gay and Bi Communities

Department of Health calls for 100,000 vaccinations as fatalities climb in 2013

Obamacare's Med-School Debt Problem

Would-be primary care doctors could take a financial hit from health care reform, but most students say it's worth it to fix a broken system

Shake Shack Forced To Reveal How Fattening Their Food Is

Shake Shack recently opened their 15th location in New Haven, meaning that the chain is large enough to be required to post calorie counts on their menus. The Wall Street journal reports that a meal consisting of a double-patty ShackBurger, regular fries and a chocolate shake is just shy of 2,000 ca ... More >>

Snow Depression Is an Actual Thing, Apparently

​Snow. It's everywhere. And it seems like it's never going to stop. And it's affecting us in more ways than we even thought. Along with "snow-related layoffs" leading to a spike in the numbers of people who are collecting unemployment now, snow is also just a plain old downer, apparently. The ... More >>

Breaking: Drinking While Biking Can Lead to Injury, Dignity Loss, Hilarious Stories

​In case you haven't already taken a spill while riding your bike down the street all weebly-wobbly after "accidentally" imbibing too many drinks (and if you haven't, you haven't really lived), here's some news for you: Drunk biking is the second most likely cause of injury to cyclists, per a ... More >>

NYU Presents Expansion Plans For Long After You're Dead

NYU met with Community Board 2 last night, to present its plan to add six million square feet of space to their New York City campuses by 2031. Some highlights of what NYU plans to do in the next 21 years, a few of which were made public for the first time last night:

FDA Considering "Lady Viagra"

​Next month the FDA will decide whether or not to endorse a pill called flibanserin (yeah, that name has got to go) which purports to boost women's sex lives. The drug, made by German pharma company Boehringer Ingelheim, sparks "a woman's sexual desire by fiddling with her brain chemicals." Wh ... More >>

Going Hydro in Queens & Going Meatless on Mondays

Christian "Hitsch" Albin, the executive chef at The Four Seasons, where he had worked for 36 years, died at New York University Medical Center on Saturday at age 62, just five days after being diagnosed with cancer. [AP] A rooftop in Jamaica, Queens is set to be transformed into the city's first co ... More >>

'Roids Are All the Rage: Other Stories Making News

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Affordable health care and services for women

Coal Dirt Cheap

New EPA Rule Threatens to Increase Local Pollution

Bio-Whatchamacallit

Tom Ridge's 'Crazy' Plan to Watch the Sky for Spores

Doctors Who Tried to Help

Hospitals Prepare for the Worst, and Then Wait

The Wailing Wall

New Yorkers Search for the Missing, One Flyer at a Time

Ambulance Wars

How Private Ambulance Crews Steer Patients Away From Public Hospitals

A Dull Knife Poised

Docs Find Ill in Chinese Organ Trade, and in Bill to Stop It

China’s Execution, Inc.

The People’s Republic Has Long Been Suspected of Selling Organs From Prisoners. Now One New York Doctor Knows the Rumors Are True.

Eat It Raw!

Blenders, Sprouters, and Mashers Process Food in the East Village

A Doctor for All Peoples

He'd go wherever there was suffering

The Hate That Makes Men Straight

Psychoanalysts probe the roots of homophobia

Treat me in St. Louis

The Virus Fights Back

At the World AIDS conference, hope mingles with troubling news about drug-resistant HIV